Add a way to find out whether a player is sneaking or not

[halvors]

Add a way to find out whether a player is sneaking or not, this should probatly be a plugin?

Any suggestions?

[gjgfuj]

Sneaking is a pretty MC specific thingy.

[RX14]

Games which don't support sneaking can just have it set to false all the time...

[gjgfuj]

oh yeah that's true, in that case it doesn't need to be a plugin at all.
just have something in Entity that determines whether they're sneaking or not.
(entities can sneak even if they're not players.)

[RX14]

and a way to see if the game support it, we could have an enum for sneaking, not sneaking and not supported... this could be a generic enum too... or just Optional<Boolean>?

[magik6k]

+1 to Optional<Boolean>

[gjgfuj]

Optional<Boolean> would be good I think.

[RX14]

Ok, we are decided

[calclavia]

Just do something like: inputManager.isKeyDown(SHIFT)

[halvors]

But then i essentially implement this for all voxel engines...

[gjgfuj]

Noooooo.... Don't rely on specific keybindings seriously! There is NO
REASON TO ASSUME THAT. Even in Minecraft.

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 4:01 pm Halvor Lyche Strandvoll <
[email protected]> wrote:

But then i essentially implement this for all voxel engines...

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[RX14]

@calclavia that's a horrible idea...

[ghost]

inputManager.isKeyDown(keybindManager/or something/.sneakKey) - is a bit better, but still horrible =/

[gjgfuj]

Why test for if the sneak key is pressed as opposed to actually seeing if
the player is sneaking..... Plus that'd work on both sides.

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 9:14 pm anti344 [email protected] wrote:

inputManager.isKeyDown(keybindManager.sneakKey) - is a bit better, but
still horrible =/

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[Victorious3]

Say, what would this be used for? I only see sneaking being used as a key bind for giving additional interaction methods, but never with "sneaking" in mind.

[calclavia]

Because it's a more general implementation. Not all games have sneak, but all keyboards have shift.

[RX14]

you can change the keybinds...

[Victorious3]

@RX14 And what? I would make it a key binding as well, why would there be an extra "sneaking" flag?

[halvors]

The user could have remapped the SHIFT key to something else, statically setting it to SHIFT is not a solution in that matter.

[RX14]

Because sometimes you actually want to know if a player is sneaking instead of holding shift. Not ALL the time it is used for an extra modifier...

[gjgfuj]

Yeah. There is reasons why you'd want to know if the player's sneaking.

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 9:21 pm Chris Hobbs [email protected] wrote:

Because sometimes you actually want to know if a player is sneaking
instead of holding shift. Not ALL the time it is used for an extra
modifier...

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[Victorious3]

Indeed, if he maps the shift key to something else your key binding would also change. That's the thing about key bindings. @gjgfuj What reasons?

[calclavia]

MC Plugin maybe?

[gjgfuj]

As an example... OpenBlocks elevators. Sneak to go down, jump to go up.
Plus, it makes MUUCH more sense. Say sneaking becomes a toggle or anything
else. That'd break the keybinding thing. You shouldn't rely on keybinds for
anything except when you really need it. I.e. your mod's stuff.

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 9:30 pm Vic Nightfall [email protected] wrote:

Indeed, if he maps the shift key to something else your key binding would
also change. That's the thing about key bindings. @gjgfuj
https://github.com/gjgfuj What reasons?

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[Victorious3]

@gjgfuj Then again, other games might not have it so that you can't rely on it anyways.

[gjgfuj]

Optional?

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 9:34 pm Vic Nightfall [email protected] wrote:

@gjgfuj https://github.com/gjgfuj Then again, other games might not
have it so that you can't rely on it anyways.

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[RX14]

Put this in MC plugin. See NOVA-Team/NOVA-Minecraft#5